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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rocky Reid who wrote (56272)	6/17/1998 10:08:00 AM
From: Les White	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 58324

>> Remember, it is a mechanical device with very tiny and delicate parts. One will have to be careful out in the field<< You mean like a watch? I know what you mean. I'm a nervous wreck by the time I get home. I don't know how my wrist watch has survived this long. Oh, isn't Citizen a watch maker? What was IOM thinking when they partnered with a watch maker to manufacture Clik!? Someone needs to have their head examined. Les

To: Rocky Reid who wrote (56272)	6/17/1998 2:36:00 PM
From: Jeff Hayden	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 58324

>>All things aside, the neatest thing about the whole Vapor! system is the very stylish brushed aluminum Vapor! disc shell. By itself, it's very good looking, very thin, and small. (But only 40MB!) However combined with the system, it becomes clunky very quickly. One is allowed at the show the handle all of the Vapor!s', and one automatically treats the external model with care because it doesn't inspire much confidence in its ruggedness. The internal models were mounted in see-through casings where you could see some of the mechanics move, including the read/write heads. The internal model is small, about the same size and width as a PC Card. Maybe just a little bigger. I didn't have a PC Card with me to compare. But the peformance will suck. And it is very frail, just as I said it would be. Remember, it is a mechanical device with very tiny and delicate parts. One will have to be careful out in the field, when the internal Vapor! is in use, not to knock the camera around, or possibly not move it at all. << Hmmm! You almost seem as though you like Clik!! That's interesting! About your concerns: --700kBytes/sec isn't horribly "sucky" for the still camera market. And if a pro-camera needed more speed for sequential shots - a buffer memory could handle that very well. --While Clik! might look fragile to you - I doubt that it is. The smaller that parts are made - the stronger they become in relation to the overall size of the system they are used in. For instance, the 2.5" notebook harddisks can take more impact g-loading than 3.5" or 5.25" harddisks because they are lighter and their internal parts are lighter. My concerns are with system implementation: --I'd like to see FlashRAM emulation so that Clik! can be plugged into older Cameras. --I'd like to see Clik! operate with the USB.

To: Rocky Reid who wrote (56272)	6/17/1998 11:53:00 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

"one automatically treats the external model with care because it doesn't inspire much confidence in its ruggedness" This was said of Clik! earlier today. On a whirlwind lunch hour tour of PC Expo today, I saw the external Clik! for myself. The Iomega rep had one attached to a Windows CE handheld. As he opened directories on the Clik! drive I noticed some AVI video files. I asked the rep to play one, which he did. While it was playing, without asking permission, I picked up the Clik! drive and gave it a couple of shakes. The video kept playing. I really didn't feel that the unit looked like it needed especially careful handling. BTW, it should be noted that AVI files are not the same as mpeg or other true video files, in that they are highly compressed. You don't need a fast drive to play them. I'm not commenting on speed, here. The Iomega booth also featured many small notebooks with the new 12.7 mm Zips in them, including the beautiful Micron GoBook. The new Sony ultrathin notebook is also just great. Although the screen is small, the whole machine weighs less than 3 pounds. And it has a magnesiun alloy case for strength. Pretty cool. The two HiFD drives that were shown running video clips were external models larger than an external Zip. I asked the rep if he could demonstrate the backward compatibility feature with a floppy disk. He said no, the drive has to run the video demo. There were a couple of VAIO desktop machines with HiFD faceplates on the front, but I was told by the reps that they were not actual drives. - Allen